Barta’a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
Tura – Shaked 07:20-07:50
The checkpoint is wide open and people cross swiftly from the West Bank into the seam-line zone. Traffic is thin but continuous. Very little traffic in the opposite direction.
A person holding a vehicular travel permit at this checkpoint tells us he changed his car and has appealed to the Salem DCO to receive a permit for his new one. The new permit has not arrived yet and still he came to the checkpoint today with his new vehicle hoping he would be allowed to reach his land. He wasn't. Could we be of help? Unfortunately, no. It's all up to the DCO and they do take their time.
Others tell us passage is reasonable, but nearly every day the checkpoint is opened 10, 20 or 30 minutes late, and it's infuriating. The tobacco fields are still in bloom, the leaves drying and being harvested – all the phases in sight.
Barta'a – Reihan 08:00 – 08:30
The checkpoint is crowded as usual in spite of the holiday, but there hardly any traffic bound for the West Bank and naturally no coffee stands or people smoking. Two people arriving from the seam-line zone to the terminal go through the turnstile and approach the inspection installation, discover that this is not functioning and turn to us. We called the checkpoint crew to take care of this, but until they did anything (if at all, we saw no practical action taking place) the two already continued into the terminal labyrinth and crossed without difficulty. We must say that on Saturdays we have not really seen the installation in action, an usually those entering simply continue into the terminal. People exiting told us that passage was reasonable, there was no waiting line seen in front of the counters. At the parking lot we met Amjad and his disabled daughted Marie. They have a hard time during Ramadan but this will be over in a week (next Thursday). Marie will apparently have to undergo another surgery soon, and in the next few days she is schedule for examinations and consultation at Sheba Hospital (inside Israel).
Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
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This checkpoint is located on the Separation Fence route, east of the Palestinian town of East Barta’a. The latter is the largest Palestinian community inside the seam-line zone (Barta’a Enclave) in the northern West Bank. Western Barta’a, inside Israel, is adjacent to it. The Checkpoint is open all week from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Since mid-May 2007, the checkpoint has been managed by a civilian security company subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. People permitted to cross through this checkpoint into and from the West Bank are residents of Palestinian communities inside the Barta’a Enclave as well as West Bank Palestinian residents holding transit permit. Jewish settlers from Hermesh and Mevo Dotan cross here without inspection. A large, modern terminal is active here with 8 windows for document inspection and biometric tests (eyes and fingerprints). Usually only one or two of the 8 windows are in operation. Goods, up to medium commercial size, may pass here from the West Bank into the Barta’a Enclave. A permanent registered group of drives who have been approved by the may pass with farm produce. When the administration of the checkpoint was turned over to a civilian security firm, the Ya’abad-Mevo Dotan Junction became a permanent checkpoint. . It is manned by soldiers who sit in the watchtower and come down at random to inspect vehicles and passengers (February 2020).
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Tura-Shaked
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Tura-Shaked
This is a fabric of life* checkpoint through which pedestrians, cabs and private cars (since 2008) pass to and from the West Bank and the Seam-line Zone to and from the industrical zone near the settler-colony Shaked, schools and kindergartens, and Jenin university campuses. The checkpoint is located between Tura village inside the West Bank and the village of Dahar Al Malah inside the enclave of the Seam-line Zone. It is opened twice a day, between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m., and from 12 noon to 7 p.m. People crossing it (at times even kindergarten children) are inspected in a bungalow with a magnometer. Names of those allowed to cross it appear in a list held by the soldiers. Usually traffic here is scant.
- fabric of life roads and checkpoints, as defined by the Terminals Authority in the Ministry of Defense (fabric of life is a laundered name that does not actually describe any kind of humanitarian purpose) are intended for Palestinians only. These roads and checkpoints have been built on lands appropriated from their Palestinian owners, including tunnels, bypass roads, and tracks passing under bridges. Thus traffic can flow between the West Bank and its separated parts that are not in any kind of territorial contiguity with it. Mostly there are no permanent checkpoint on these roads but rather ‘flying’ checkpoints, check-posts or surprise barriers. At Toura, a small (less than one dunam) and sleepy checkpoint has been established, which has filled up with the years with nearly .every means of supervision and surveillance that the Israeli military occupation has produced. (February 2020)
Mar-21-2022Anin Checkpoint: A magnificent breach in the center of the checkpoint
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